[PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes()

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Tue Oct 30 23:29:02 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:12:39PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >>
> >> How about prandom32_get_bytes_state() and prandom32_get_bytes() instead?
> >
> > I agree with your suggestion.  I'll rename them and try again.
> >
> > By the way, should we also rename the existing random32() and
> > prandom32() in the future?

I suppose the other way to go is to just use random32 as the common
prefix, and just have random32() and random32_state().  My concern was
that people might assume that prandom32() and random32() might imply
that only prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number
generator.  This might be easier since there are large number of uses
of random32() in the source tree, but only a relative few using
prandom32().

    	   	     	    	     - Ted



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